SalfordCityBlue said:
Not done it yet - have gone back and forth over the last couple of weeks on whether to or not, I probably will though.
Although I can afford it it's getting too expensive now to justify (don't care what other clubs charge - they are too expensive as well).
Don't enjoy the mood of 'we have to win every game or it's a disaster', and even less enjoy the current attitude of we have to win the league or it's some huge failure.
Us winning the league should always be amazing, not simply expected. Where's the fun in that?
The last month has soured my personal relationship with City just a little bit so I haven't rushed to renew as I usually would. However, I am encouraged by Aguero's extension, and interested to see whether Pellegrini will bring us the exciting team he seems to be suggesting that he will.
And although recent events have been disappointing, anyone who's been a City fan long enough to remember Maine Road has seen infinitely worse (actually not even that far back) - only difference now is that it doesn't feel like they need our support like they did back then... More like they feel 'take it or leave it' these days. Which is fine, just different.
Odd but i know exactly how you feel!Of course i prefer us being back at the top table competing for trophies and watching better players rather than scraping draws at Walsall away,but something seems to have been lost a little bit along the way.
Back in the dark days it felt like we were one big family scrimping and scraping to survive and we were all important and pitched in.I remember the club pleading with us not to desert them [as if we would!] when we dropped to the third tier and how proud i felt we stayed loud and loyal,while every man and his bloody dog took the piss.
These days it feels like if i stopped going it wouldn't matter so much,someone else would snap up my season ticket and more to the point nobody at the club would even know or care as to why i left after 45 years.
The way Mancini was treated after all he has done for the club didn't sit well with me either.Sure he has gone now and we might be better for it,time will tell,but as fans we should have been given the chance to say goodbye and show our appreciation for what he did,instead we had to pay for an advert in a newspaper to do so.
I am putting the tin hat on for the verbal bricks heading my way about how i should be grateful we have a great team and are competing for trophies etcetera,would i rather we were a yo yo club and mid table at best.Save your fingers,one i am and two no i wouldn't.
I knew if we were to get to the top something would be lost along the way and i thought i could live with it,anything to see us win a trophy again before i bloody died!Now it has happened i feel a little empty,a strange feeling,impossible really to put into words,maybe uncomfortable?
Will i renew?....Of course,do you think i put up with a lifetime of almost complete crap to miss out on some good times now,lol??......Still........i think as a club we are at a crossroads regarding our support,our approach to things and where we want to go,i just hope this 'holistic' approach settles everything down and all is well again.
